Urban Europe : fifty tales of the city / Virginie Mamadouh and Anne van Wageningen (eds.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mamadouh, Virginie.

Contributor:

Mamadouh, Virginie, 1963- editor.

Wageningen, Anne van, editor.

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Social change.

Sociology, Urban--Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Sociology, Urban.

Sociology, Urban--Europe.

Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Social conditions.

Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Urban Europe, urban researchers and practitioners based in Amsterdam tell the story of the European city, sharing their knowledge of and insights into urban dynamics in short, thought-provoking pieces. Their essays were collected on the occasion of the adoption of the Pact of Amsterdam with an Urban Agenda for the European Union during the Dutch Presidency of the Council in 2016.The fifty essays gathered in this volume present perspectives from diverse academic disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences. The authors " including the Mayor of Amsterdam, urban activists, civil servants and academic observers " cover a wide range of topical issues, inviting and encouraging us to rethink citizenship, connectivity, innovation, sustainability and representation as well as the role of cities in administrative and political networks. With the Urban Agenda for the European Union, EU Member States have acknowledged the potential of cities to address the societal challenges of the 21st century. This is part of a larger, global trend. These are all good reasons to learn more about urban dynamics and to understand the challenges that cities have faced in the past and that they currently face. Often but not necessarily taking Amsterdam as an example, the essays in this volume will help you grasp the complexity of urban Europe and identify the challenges your own city is confronting.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Urban Europe and the European Union / Mamadouh, Virginie / Wageningen, Anne van

Part 1: Citizenship

2. At home in the city? / Duyvendak, Jan Willem / Wekker, Fenneke

3. A tolerant social climate? / Sunier, Thijl

4. Sex and the city / Hekma, Gert

5. The city as integration mechanism? / Klaver, Jeanine / Odé, Arend

6. Undocumented immigrants / Garcés-Mascareñas, Blanca / Chauvin, Sébastien

7. From Mokum to Damsko and back again? / Mamadouh, Virginie / El Ayadi, Nesrin

8. Schools in the multilingual city / Agirdag, Orhan

9. City kids and citizenship / Karsten, Lia

10. Those who feel left behind / Pinkster, Fenne M.

11. Exiles in the city: A triptych / Snel, Guido / Eckenhaussen, Sepp / Ruiter, Fien de

Part 2: Urban nodes

12. Hub Cities 2.0 for the 21st century / Arbonés Aran, Núria

13. Competing cities and urban networks in medieval Europa / Steensel, Arie van

14. Beyond anti-urban sentiments / Hemel, Zef

15. Trendy coffee shops and urban sociability / Rath, Jan / Gelmers, Wietze

16. A quiet transfer / Geltner, G.

17. Build something different for a change! / Verlaan, Tim

18. Big is beautiful? / Majoor, Stan

19. Creative cities and shrinking cities: False opposites? / Bontje, Marco

Part 3: Creative cities

20. The creative destruction and recovery of cities / Jonker, Joost

21. Visions and symbols of the creative city / Rasterhoff, Claartje

22. Smart cities value their smart citizens / Kresin, Frank

23. The dangers of a tamed city / Kloosterman, Robert C.

24. Cities and creative unpredictability / Föllmer, Moritz

25. Cultural Incubators: The squats of the 21st century? / Draaisma, Jaap

26. New cities as testing grounds for a new urbanity / Reijndorp, Arnold

Part 4: Sustainable cities

27. The social sustainability of European cities / Musterd, Sako / Nijman, Jan

28. Bothersome and besotted / Blok, Gemma

29. ProefGroen (Taste Green / Test Green) / Dijkstra, Coosje / Halberstadt, Jutka / Seidell, Jaap / Verhoeff, Arnoud

30. Cycling is an acquired skill / Brömmelstroet, Marco te

31. Growing socio-spatial segregation in European capitals: Different government, less mitigation / Musterd, Sako

32. The future of the city / Slot, Jeroen / Michon, Laure

33. Welcome to Amsterdam! Well, not really / Wijngaarden, Arie van

34. More than just housing / Veer, Jeroen van der / Schuiling, Dick

35. The energetic city: Between dreams and deeds / Hisschemöller, Matthijs

Part 5: Urban representation

36. The dreamed European city (urbo kune) / Laan, Eberhard van der

37. Interlocking identities / Wintle, Michael

38. An eye for freedom: Spinoza and Terstall in Amsterdam / Pisters, Patricia

39. An urban geopolitics / Bialasiewicz, Luiza

40. Decor and decorum in diplomacy / Wusten, Herman van der

41. Urban diplomacy in Europe / Vos, Claske

42. Town twinning / Mamadouh, Virginie

Part 6: Cities in administrative and policy networks

43. The city as a tool to promote European integration: Napoleonic Amsterdam / Burg, Martijn van der / Wageningen, Anne van

44. The European city as a bulwark of resistance against neoliberalisation / Zuidhof, P.W.

45. About bed, bath and bread / Versteegh, Lia

46. Safe cities in Europe: Making the leap to sustainable connections / Boer, Monica den

47. URBAN Bijlmermeer / Dukes, Thea

48. A Europe of peripheries / Savini, Federico

49. An Urban Agenda for the European Union: About cities or with cities? / Heijde, Wouter van der

50. 2031: The year the city disbanded the state / Wageningen, Anne van

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ISBN:

1-003-70888-9

1-04-077809-7

1-04-078148-9

90-485-3581-6

9781003708889

OCLC:

1178720847